David Hestenes
Physicist, Academic
1933 –
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Who is David Hestenes?
David Orlin Hestenes, Ph.D. is a theoretical physicist and science educator. He is best known as chief architect of geometric algebra as a unified language for mathematics and physics, and as founder of Modelling Instruction, a research-based program to reform K–12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education.
For more than 30 years, he was employed in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Arizona State University, where he retired with the rank of Research Professor and is now emeritus.
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